Gulou District, belonging to Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is located in the northwest of Nanjing, with a total area of 54.18 square, is the center of Nanjing, Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, the provincial government, the seat of the provincial CPPCC organs. It is adjacent to Xuanwu and Qixia districts in the east; bordered by Qinhuai and Jianye districts in the south; and Pukou district in the west and north, bounded by the Yangtze River. As of 2023, it has 13 streets and 120 neighborhoods. The People's Government of the district is located at Shanxi Road.124 As of the end of 2022, the district had a resident population of 942,000 people.
Gulou District has a long history and is one of the earlier areas of Nanjing urban development, with a number of primitive villages existing 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. In the thirty-sixth year of King Xian of Zhou (333 years ago), King Xiong Shang of Chu set up Jinling Eup in Stone Mountain, which was the first administrative establishment of Gulou District and the beginning of the urbanization of Nanjing. Gulou District was established in the twenty-second year of the Republic of China (1933), originating from the sixth and seventh districts of the Republic of China, because the Nanjing Drum Tower is located in the territory, so the name Gulou District. Gulou District has a long history and has a long history, 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, there are many primitive villages existed, bordering the Yangtze River, surrounded by mountains, lakes and rivers, mountains, water, cities, forests, rivers as one, there are dragons and tigers of the male, depending on the mountains and the water of the victory.
As of 2021, Gulou District has more than 90% of Nanjing's provincial authorities, 15 higher education institutions such as Nanjing University, 52 innovation and entrepreneurship carriers of various types, and 11 urban silicon alleys. Science and technology business incubators, 15 university science and technology parks, 97 national and provincial key laboratories, more than 100,000 scientific and technological personnel, 57 post-doctoral mobile stations, 52 national key disciplines, 12 national key laboratories, 25 ministry and provincial engineering and technology research centers, and 46 academicians of the two academies of sciences and technology are all gathered here, making Gulou District the most densely populated scientific and technological resources urban area in China.
In 2022, Gulou District will realize a GDP of 195.394 billion yuan, a per capita GDP of 207,447 yuan, and a general public budget revenue of 17.418 billion yuan.
